---- To use wordpress on your own - you must download application
Two options – host from your own server, run off remote server
Can customize
wordpress.org - where to get the application to download
wordpress.com - get free space to create blog
Another hybrid - wordpress mu (Multi-user)
Open source (similar to moodle as in open source application)
Installs on your server – mu – acts as a parent that reproduces “children”
Web space – Hershey blog runs on a server at site – has lots of “children” blogs
Valuable with students – easy to create complete originals – can customize easily
Uses examples of blog posts as examples for students to write their own (models expectation)
He collects news stories – history changes…uses as a springboard for student posts
Recent event stories within year – students do background check on content- blogs are concise, have hyperlinks, responsibility w/citations
Blog posts get listed in order of when they are published
Considers blogs as writing assignment
Provides rubric AND adds:“This site is going public…either you are getting published or not getting published”…he retained control over who made it “live”.Out of 90 students , only 1 did not get published
He gets post, reads them, then pushes them out – he sometimes offers one blog across several classes
Teacher was going for collaboration/communication
Posts end up like a forum – stacked
Example:American cultures II – Issues & Controversies in American History
Plan:Student research, decide point to argue, students provide their view of history
Showcase example from one of his students – Charles Lindberg responsible for death of child?
Once published, it got more comments – “checked out some of your links and tell me why you think this”.“This is a very unpopular view…explain thoughts.”
Mechanics – administer, security, safety
External – what you see
Internal – dashboard –
Students’ dashboard has fewer options than administrator
He “owns” the parent and gets ultimate rights
He can turn things on/off on the parent site
Student comments never go public unless he allows, he puts comments out to see
Dashboard gives him rundown of what’s happened since he logged in
Every time a new user logs in – it asks to rank (so each person is assigned level of rights)
Students can be subscribers (allow to view), contributors (allows to contribute), editor (allows to publish)
Most often enter students as contributors
He grabs 100 themes and slaps them on the local access…that allows teachers to pick from the list as they create their own page.Found under the design panel
He can use widgits (similar to igoogle)
He can add a calendar – students don’t do or see this – all administrator controlled
Finds his content through Google Reader
Reads blog posts – way to read hundreds of blogs without ever having to go to the web sites themselves (similar to bloglines)
He uses this to find articles that are used in his description of use above
Uses class time to model, but also has dedicated laptop cart to do 1:1 during class time
Word press MU – no really good way to upload users in batch
So if you are asking your tech person to add this…they have pentamation?
Dagon Design – created a plugin for importing users in word press
For more information on my presentation, please see:
Beginning WordPress
Intermediate WordPress
Advanced WordPress
Or, for WordPress examples, see:
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To use wordpress on your own - you must download application
Two options – host from your own server, run off remote server
Can customize
wordpress.org - where to get the application to download
wordpress.com - get free space to create blog
Another hybrid - wordpress mu (Multi-user)
Open source (similar to moodle as in open source application)
Installs on your server – mu – acts as a parent that reproduces “children”
Web space – Hershey blog runs on a server at site – has lots of “children” blogs
Valuable with students – easy to create complete originals – can customize easily
Uses examples of blog posts as examples for students to write their own (models expectation)
He collects news stories – history changes…uses as a springboard for student posts
Recent event stories within year – students do background check on content- blogs are concise, have hyperlinks, responsibility w/citations
Blog posts get listed in order of when they are published
Considers blogs as writing assignment
Provides rubric AND adds: “This site is going public…either you are getting published or not getting published”…he retained control over who made it “live”. Out of 90 students , only 1 did not get published
He gets post, reads them, then pushes them out – he sometimes offers one blog across several classes
Teacher was going for collaboration/communication
Posts end up like a forum – stacked
Example: American cultures II – Issues & Controversies in American History
Plan: Student research, decide point to argue, students provide their view of history
Showcase example from one of his students – Charles Lindberg responsible for death of child?
Once published, it got more comments – “checked out some of your links and tell me why you think this”. “This is a very unpopular view…explain thoughts.”
Mechanics – administer, security, safety
External – what you see
Internal – dashboard –
Students’ dashboard has fewer options than administrator
He “owns” the parent and gets ultimate rights
He can turn things on/off on the parent site
Student comments never go public unless he allows, he puts comments out to see
Dashboard gives him rundown of what’s happened since he logged in
Every time a new user logs in – it asks to rank (so each person is assigned level of rights)
Students can be subscribers (allow to view), contributors (allows to contribute), editor (allows to publish)
Most often enter students as contributors
He grabs 100 themes and slaps them on the local access…that allows teachers to pick from the list as they create their own page. Found under the design panel
He can use widgits (similar to igoogle)
He can add a calendar – students don’t do or see this – all administrator controlled
Finds his content through Google Reader
Reads blog posts – way to read hundreds of blogs without ever having to go to the web sites themselves (similar to bloglines)
He uses this to find articles that are used in his description of use above
Uses class time to model, but also has dedicated laptop cart to do 1:1 during class time
Word press MU – no really good way to upload users in batch
So if you are asking your tech person to add this…they have pentamation?
Dagon Design – created a plugin for importing users in word press